Sunshine and Sea (Kogan Paul, Trench, and Co.), is a
lively account of a yachting visit to the Channel Islands and the coast of Brittany by a country doctor. If, indeed, it can be said to have any fault at all, it is that the high spirits of the writer are apt to find too slangy expression. Phrases like " the mater," which must, we suppose, be excused (though there is no good reason why they should be), are rather too abundant, and too suggestive of middle-age seeking to be juvenile after its time. Bat the author of Sunshine and Sea has a keen and kindly eye, and if he has nothing very original to say of the Bretons —how could he F—he gives very pleasant sketches of them, both with pen and with pencil. His illustrations—notably a portrait of a French commercial traveller—have just a sufficient amount of caricature to give them piquancy.
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